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The ‘Legal Unconscious’: Exploring the Intersection of Law and Psychoanalysis

The ‘Legal Unconscious’: Exploring the Intersection of Law and Psychoanalysis This article explores the intersection between law and psychoanalysis. We argue that psychoanalysis provides a method of reading the law in a novel, nuanced and subversive way. Paying attention to repetitions and repressions in the text of the law, one can discern, what has been named, ‘the legal unconscious’. The essay seeks to introduce law students to some of the foundational ideas of psychoanalysis and illustrate the possibilities of alternative legal imaginations that this method opens up. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Legal Education SAGE

The ‘Legal Unconscious’: Exploring the Intersection of Law and Psychoanalysis

Bindal, Amit; Vashist, Latika
Asian Journal of Legal Education , Volume 10 (2): 13 – Jul 1, 2023
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© 2023 The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
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2322-0058
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2348-2451
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10.1177/23220058221139075
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Abstract

This article explores the intersection between law and psychoanalysis. We argue that psychoanalysis provides a method of reading the law in a novel, nuanced and subversive way. Paying attention to repetitions and repressions in the text of the law, one can discern, what has been named, ‘the legal unconscious’. The essay seeks to introduce law students to some of the foundational ideas of psychoanalysis and illustrate the possibilities of alternative legal imaginations that this method opens up.

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Asian Journal of Legal Education – SAGE

Published: Jul 1, 2023

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